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Originally Posted by Twisted_Woody
ideally Saha would have been the striker and then Rooney would have been more of the withdrawn forward - Tevez is a similar mold to Rooney, except he has a bit more instinct. An idea might be to play Tevez as a striker and then Rooney can resume his withdrawn forward role.
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The problem being Tevez cant play that role. We saw it in the early parts of the season.
Obviously SAF believes its more important to have someone who can win balls in the air (or at least make it hard for defenders to deal with) and look for the ball over the top now and again - than it is to have Rooney playing in his natural role when we have Tevez who can fill in.
Rooney is not a natural lead the line striker, but he can do it. Tevez simply cannot. While his finishing is better, there are a lot more important things the lead the line striker needs to do and not one of themm does Tevez do anywhere near as good as Rooney.
I do think Tevez plays too deep a lot of the time though. Whenever the ball is put into the box, he should be in there.